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Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/konopo

This Proto-Cariban entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Cariban

Noun

*konopo

  1. rain
    Synonym: *tuna

Descendants
  • Guianan:
    • Apalaí: konopo
    • Kari'na: konopo
    • Proto-Taranoan: *konopo
    • Wayana: kopë
  • Kuikuroan:
    • Kuikúro: kongoho
  • Parukotoan:
    • Kaxuyana: konoho
  • Pekodian:
    • Bakairí: kopâ
    • Ikpeng: kongpo
    • Pará Arára: kongpo
  • Venezuelan Cariban:
    • Mapoyan:
      • ⇒ Yabarana: kënapowë:peri
    • Panare: kano', kono'
    • Pemongan:
      • Macushi: kono'
      • Pemon: konok
    • Yao (South America): kenape
  • Ye'kwana: konojo
  • Yukpan:
    • Yukpa: keyopo

References
  • Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
  • Meira, Sérgio, Bruna Franchetto (2005) “The southern Cariban languages and the Cariban family”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 71, pages 127–192
  • Florian Matter, editor (2021), “*konopo”, in Comparative Cariban Database‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, retrieved 2024-02-28
  • Meira, Sérgio (1998) A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology‎, Houston: Rice University, page 181
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 298
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “konojo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
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